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How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters

Hyper-personalized messages, delivered with A.I.-enabled precision, herald a new frontier for voter outreach (and potential disinformation).

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Microtargeting technology can help campaigns build more sophisticated models about constituent preferences that can be used to test various messaging in real time.

How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters

Hyper-personalized messages, delivered with A.I.-enabled precision, herald a new frontier for voter outreach (and potential disinformation).

Β© Will Warasila for The New York Times

Microtargeting technology can help campaigns build more sophisticated models about constituent preferences that can be used to test various messaging in real time.

As Political Ad Spending Skyrockets, Broadcast TV Remains King

Even though marketers have increasingly shifted their dollars to other media, local stations are reaping a bonanza during these midterm elections. Nowhere is this is more evident than in Texas.

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Voters Usually Ignore Corruption as an Issue. It Now Has Their Attention.

Voters have shrugged off accusations of corruption for years, believing all politicians are corrupt, but thanks to President Trump’s unpopularity and growing wealth, the issue is breaking through.

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Some recent polls have shown corruption has risen to the top of issues that voters say they care about most.

Gina Hinojosa’s Texas Governor Campaign Tests Limits of New Rules for Digital Political Ads

Some of the social media posts paid for by Gina Hinojosa’s campaign for Texas governor don’t include a disclosure, despite a state regulation that likely requires it.

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Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas.

Bots Drive Online Chatter About Races in Kansas and Texas

Much of the online discourse about Senate races in Texas and Kansas is coming from accounts that appear to be automated, according to new research.

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A demonstrator in Dallas. Research shows inauthentic accounts on social media have been promoting political content in Kansas and Texas.

Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race

As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.

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Senator Darline Graham of South Carolina has been friendlier toward the data center industry than her Democratic opponent, trying to walk a line between backing the centers’ development as a national security necessity while stressing the need for community involvement.

Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push

The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

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Meta’s annual conference last month in Menlo Park, Calif. The company received $22 million back from its American Technology Excellence Project and $3 million from a California advocacy group it funded.

An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content

Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversation.

Β© The New York Times

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